diff --git a/.github/workflows/minor_release.yaml b/.github/workflows/minor_release.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d5504e4baa6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/minor_release.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+name: Minor release
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+# The workflow needs the permission to push branches
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+
+jobs:
+  minor-release:
+    name: Minor release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Install Linux Dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install pip
+
+      - name: Install Python Dependencies
+        run: |
+          pip install PyGithub requests
+
+      - name: Checkout TimescaleDB
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set env var NEW_VERSION
+        run: echo "NEW_VERSION=$(head -1 version.config | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | cut -d '-' -f 1)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Test env var NEW_VERSION
+        run: echo $NEW_VERSION
+
+      - name: Set env var RELEASE_BRANCH
+        run: echo "RELEASE_BRANCH="${${{ env.NEW_VERSION }}/%.0/.x}"" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Test env var RELEASE_BRANCH
+        run: echo $RELEASE_BRANCH
+
+      - name: Create PR to main branch for minor release
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ORG_AUTOMATION_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          git remote --verbose
+          scripts/release/create_minor_release_PR_commit.sh main
+
+      - name: Create release branch for minor release
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ORG_AUTOMATION_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          git remote --verbose
+          scripts/release/create_minor_release_branch.sh
+
+      - name: Create PR to release branch for minor release
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ORG_AUTOMATION_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          git remote --verbose
+          scripts/release/create_minor_release_PR_commit.sh ${{ env. RELEASE_BRANCH }}
diff --git a/scripts/release/create_minor_release_PR_commit.sh b/scripts/release/create_minor_release_PR_commit.sh
index f33ab479fc3..1f9c45d7c64 100755
--- a/scripts/release/create_minor_release_PR_commit.sh
+++ b/scripts/release/create_minor_release_PR_commit.sh
@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@
 set -eu
 
 # Folder, where we have cloned repositories' sources
-SOURCES_DIR="sources"
+SOURCES_DIR="timescaledb"
 
-GH_USERNAME=$(gh auth status | grep 'Logged in to' |cut -d ' ' -f 9)
-
-FORK_DIR="$GH_USERNAME-timescaledb"
+#folder-name
+FORK_DIR="timescaledb"
 
 echo "---- Deriving the release related versions from main ----"
 
@@ -17,6 +16,8 @@ NEW_PATCH_VERSION="0"
 NEW_VERSION=$(head -1 version.config | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | cut -d '-' -f 1)
 RELEASE_BRANCH="${NEW_VERSION/%.$NEW_PATCH_VERSION/.x}"
 CURRENT_VERSION=$(tail -1 version.config | cut -d ' ' -f 3)
+CURRENT_MINOR_VERSION=$(echo $NEW_VERSION | cut -d '.' -f 2)
+NEW_MINOR_VERSION=$((CURRENT_MINOR_VERSION + 1))
 cd sql/updates
 
 for f in ./*
@@ -29,7 +30,6 @@ done
 LAST_VERSION=$(echo "$LAST_UPDATE_FILE" |cut -d '-' -f 1 |cut -d '/' -f 2)
 
 echo "CURRENT_VERSION is $CURRENT_VERSION"
-#echo "LAST_UPDATE_FILE is $LAST_UPDATE_FILE"
 echo "LAST_VERSION is $LAST_VERSION"
 echo "RELEASE_BRANCH is $RELEASE_BRANCH"
 echo "NEW_VERSION is $NEW_VERSION"
@@ -37,18 +37,21 @@ cd ~/"$SOURCES_DIR"/"$FORK_DIR"
 
 
 # Derived Variables
-#RELEASE_PR_BRANCH="release-$NEW_VERSION-$RELEASE_BRANCH"
-RELEASE_PR_BRANCH="release-$NEW_VERSION"
+RELEASE_PR_BRANCH="release/$NEW_VERSION"
 UPDATE_FILE="$CURRENT_VERSION--$NEW_VERSION.sql"
 DOWNGRADE_FILE="$NEW_VERSION--$CURRENT_VERSION.sql"
 LAST_UPDATE_FILE="$LAST_VERSION--$CURRENT_VERSION.sql"
 LAST_DOWNGRADE_FILE="$CURRENT_VERSION--$LAST_VERSION.sql"
 
+BASE_BRANCH="$1"
+RELEASE_PR_BRANCH="$RELEASE_PR_BRANCH-to-$BASE_BRANCH"
+
+echo "final BASE_BRANCH is $BASE_BRANCH"
+echo "RELEASE_PR_BRANCH is $RELEASE_PR_BRANCH"
 
-echo "---- Creating release branch $RELEASE_PR_BRANCH from $RELEASE_BRANCH, on the fork ----"
+echo "---- Creating release branch $RELEASE_PR_BRANCH from $BASE_BRANCH, on the fork ----"
 
-git checkout -b "$RELEASE_PR_BRANCH" upstream/"$RELEASE_BRANCH"
-#git checkout -b "$RELEASE_PR_BRANCH" upstream/main
+git checkout -b "$RELEASE_PR_BRANCH" origin/"$BASE_BRANCH"
 git branch
 git pull && git diff HEAD
 
@@ -129,6 +132,15 @@ done
 
 cd ..
 
+
+if [[ "$BASE_BRANCH" = "main" ]]; then
+  echo "---- Modifying version.config to the new versions , if current PR is for main----"
+  sed -i.bak "s/${NEW_VERSION}/${NEW_VERSION}-dev/g" version.config
+  sed -i.bak "s/${CURRENT_MINOR_VERSION}/${NEW_MINOR_VERSION}/g" version.config
+  sed -i.bak "s/${CURRENT_VERSION}/${NEW_VERSION}/g" version.config
+  rm version.config.bak
+fi
+
 git diff HEAD --name-only
 
 
diff --git a/scripts/release/create_minor_release_branch.sh b/scripts/release/create_minor_release_branch.sh
index 3945943395d..881ca96e475 100755
--- a/scripts/release/create_minor_release_branch.sh
+++ b/scripts/release/create_minor_release_branch.sh
@@ -2,11 +2,9 @@
 set -eu
 
 # Folder, where we have cloned repositories' sources
-SOURCES_DIR="sources"
+SOURCES_DIR="timescaledb"
 
-GH_USERNAME=$(gh auth status | grep 'Logged in to' |cut -d ' ' -f 9)
-
-FORK_DIR="$GH_USERNAME-timescaledb"
+FORK_DIR="timescaledb"
 
 echo "---- Deriving the release related versions from main ----"
 
@@ -25,6 +23,6 @@ echo "NEW_VERSION is $NEW_VERSION"
 echo "---- Creating the version branch from main ----"
 
 git fetch --all
-git checkout -b "$RELEASE_BRANCH" upstream/main
-git push upstream "$RELEASE_BRANCH":"$RELEASE_BRANCH"
+git checkout -b "$RELEASE_BRANCH" origin/main
+git push origin "$RELEASE_BRANCH":"$RELEASE_BRANCH"